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Re: [wcsplus] asynchronous response

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Hi again,

Dominic Lowe wrote:

Hi Ethan,
(still not fully digested your brain dump..) I'm also finding it useful to think of this in terms of the behaviour of the client and server. 

I think the wcs server can:
        return data
        return an XML manifest pointing to stored data.
        return a "pollable" URI
For the last option, I think the response can be more extensive than just returning a URI. An HTTP "202 Accepted" response can have a body and the spec suggests it 

   "SHOULD include an indication of the request's current status and
   either a pointer to a status monitor or some estimate of when the
   user can expect the request to be fulfilled".

I would see the "status monitor" as similar to your "pollable" URI.
I think we need to come up with an XML encoding of the body of a 202 response and the response from the "pollable" URI. This is where I wonder if SOAP/WS-* work in this area might be useful to look at. 


The service at the pollable URI* can:
        return some sort of status message (e.g. not ready)
return an XML manifest pointing to stored data 

That's a good idea. Just return the manifest if the data is ready.


A full 1.0.0 + client can:
        call GetCoverage
        call a Polling service
        get data from a URI

Does that match your view of things?


Yes, sounds good.


Dominic
*The polling service and 'the wcs server' may be one and the same thing, but it's maybe useful to separate them for this discussion. 

I agree.

Ethan

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